SANDAG’s effort is happening alongside a statewide conversation about how to accommodate new housing. One controversial bill, SB 827, would knock down local barriers to building dense housing near transit. That’s certainly been a struggle in San Diego (hi, Bay Park!) but as KPBS’s Andrew Bowen has pointed out, the bill would impact some urban areas locally, but rules in large swaths of the county would go unchanged.

DeVos Sits Down With Lincoln Critics

There have been some troubling stories recently about violence at Lincoln High, including accounts from educators who say they’ve been assaulted and new details about a 2016 sexual assault case.

DeVos is considering pulling an Obama-era directive that urged schools to focus on restorative justice – practices that aim to address why students act out, instead of just suspending them. Critics of those policies say they can make schools more violent and let some incidents go unpunished.

But a San Diego County Office of Education official recently made an important distinction that appears to have been lost in the discussion: Restorative justice only works if it has a district and school’s full buy-in and is given funding and training. That’s not always happening.

In Other News

This week’s North County Report casts some shade on Oceanside officials’ claims that an ordinance creating pot regulations was “a rushed job.” The City Council agreed to allow some medical marijuana activities last week. Also in the roundup: inewsource’s report on how magnet schools in Vista are contributing to racial isolation.

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